Global football stars choose Red Sea destination for holiday
TABUK, SAUDI ARABIA – A few days ago, the Red Sea destination hosted several international football stars from Saudi Pro...
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Al Hilal finish off Al Ittihad to ease into Asian Champions League semis
Ittihad's miserable night was summed up in the final minute of normal time, when striker Abderrazak Hamdallah was given a...
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World Cup boom pushes some Qatar residents out of homes
With the World Cup a few weeks away, and a million fans expected to descend on Doha, Qatari landlords are...
- FIFA recently released thousands of hotel rooms it had reserved, which experts have said could push prices of hotel rooms down in the coming weeks
- Some Doha residents are putting their flats and houses up for rent and fleeing Qatar for the month
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Qatar says over 1.5 million apply for compulsory World Cup pass
All travelers to Qatar will need the pass to enter from November 1, whether they intend to watch a game...
- Qatar has said it expects more than one million foreign visitors, as well as hundreds of thousands of domestic fans.
- The two international airports in Qatari capital will handle 150,000 entries a day during the football tournament that begins on November 20
Fans warned to be ready for World Cup queues
Private cars will be banned from many streets and residents near some stadiums will need permits to get to their...
- The gulf state of 2.9 million people will be the smallest to hold the World Cup that starts November 20
- Qatar has spent billions of dollars on a state-of-the-art driverless metro rail network that serves five of the eight stadiums
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LeBron’s 18-year-old son Bronny signs Nike endorsement deal
The younger James, who turned 18 last Thursday, is a guard at Sierra Canyon High School near Los Angeles while...
- LeBron James signed a lifetime Nike deal in 2015 after working with the shoemaker since his own days as an 18-year-old prep prospect
- Bronny James inked an NIL deal for name, image and likeness rights along with four other young basketball guards
She’s training men: Bahrain hoopster breaks the mould
It is unusual for a woman to rise to the top, and in the conservative Arab monarchies of the Gulf,...
- It is unusual for a woman to rise to the top, and in the conservative Arab monarchies of the Gulf, Reyadh's position is astounding
- Several countries in the region have sought to soften a hardline image in recent years, promoting women more in the workforce, the arts and in sport
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Qatar lures the rich with luxury World Cup
Those with bottomless budgets in the resource-rich region have attractive accommodation options too, with one third-party site offering $4,000-a-night hotel rooms...
- Stadium crowds will include Qatar's migrant laborers, who were offered some tickets at $11 to watch a sport whose players and core supporters are traditionally blue-collar
- United States, Britain, France, Mexico, China and India were among the countries where fans were showing most interest in packages for the UAE
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Sports become money-spinning enterprise for GCC
From Formula One racing to the football World Cup, the top-notch global sporting events are coming to Middle East, bringing...
- According to the World Trade Organization, the Middle East has the fastest-growing sports tourism market globally, currently worth an estimated US$600 billion
- Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki, Saudi minister of sports, stated last year that the sector's contribution to the GDP grew almost 160 percent in 2 years
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Qatar wants mascot of headdress to symbolize WC
A flying keffiyah headdress named La'eeb, meaning super skilful player in Arabic, is the official World Cup mascot and is...
- La'eeb has been adopted by some internet blockchain communities in China which have issued tokens bearing the mascot's likeness.
- The keffiyeh headdress, also known as a shemagh or a ghutra, is designed to protect against the sun, sand and dust.
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For Saudi fan, road to World Cup is a desert trek
Wearing a wide-brim hat and a backpack to which Abdullah Alsulmi'd affixed Saudi and Qatari flags, he said: "I consider...
- To keep his load light, Alsulmi subsists on food he can buy at petrol stations, often chicken and rice, while showering and washing his clothes at mosques
- Alsulmi sets out at sunrise and walks until 10 or 10:30 am, but then the heat forces him to break for a few hours before resuming in the afternoon and continuing until sundown
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Saudi Winter Games: Gulf is new hub for global sports competitions
In 2021, Dubai hosted qualifying slaloms for the Beijing Winter Olympics in the refrigerated dome of a huge shopping mall...
- Saudi investors have bought English football club Newcastle and are financing the breakaway LIV golf tour
- The rivalry with the Qatari and Emirati neighbours, regional pioneers in sports diplomacy, remains constantly in the background
Global football stars choose Red Sea destination for holiday
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Saudi Arabia announces bid to host World Cup in 2034
The bid "intends to deliver a world-class tournament and will draw inspiration from Saudi Arabia's ongoing social and economic transformation...
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Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia beats Iran’s Nassaji with hat-trick in AFC Champions League
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Saudi-Iran club match axed amid row over slain commander’s statue
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Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open set to return to UAE in Feb 2024
Abu Dhabi, UAE - Following the resounding success of its inaugural edition in February 2023, the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open...
- Hosted by the Women's Tennis Association in partnership with Mubadala, the tournament will take place from 3 to 11 February 2024
- The Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open has swiftly ascended to a prominent position in women's tennis, thanks to its substantial $900,000 prize fund
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Morocco, Algeria set to host Cup of Nations tournaments
After a number of deadlines passed without the hosts being revealed, a senior African Football Confederation (CAF) official told AFP...
- North African neighbors Morocco and Algeria are seeking to stage the 2025 edition of the premier African sport event
- The Ivory Coast will stage the 2023/2024 Cup of Nations, which has been postponed to January and February next year
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ESports debuts as Asian Games medal event but women left behind
Excited video-game fans thronged a shiny new arena in the Chinese city on Sunday as eSports made its debut at the...
- Only two women, Sabina Ibragimova of Uzbekistan and Nguyen Thi Phuong Yen of Vietnam, were scheduled to play during the dozens of officially mixed-gender games on Sunday.
- Organizers have increasingly answered the call for women-only events in recent years, including the International Esports Federation Female Asian Championship in Saudi Arabia.